Vivek Pathak

Department of Computer Science
Rutgers University

I have earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science under the guidance of Prof. Liviu Iftode. The title of my dissertation was Robust Decentralized Authentication for Public Keys and Geographic Location. The details of my work at Rutgers are given below.

Publications

  1. V. Pathak, D. Yao, and L. Iftode Securing Location Aware Services Over VANET Using Geographical Secure Path Routing. Proceedings of the International Conference on Vehicular Electronics and Safety - ICVES, September 2008.
  2. V. Pathak, D. Yao, and L. Iftode. Improving Email Trustworthiness through Social-Group Key Authentication. Fifth Conference on Email and Anti-Spam - CEAS, August 2008.
  3. V. Pathak and L. Iftode. Byzantine Fault Tolerant Public Key Authentication in Peer-to-peer Systems. Computer Networks, Vol 50/4, March 2006.

Talks

  1. Robust Decentralized Authentication of Public Keys and Geographic Locations. Ph.D. Defense, December 2008.
  2. Securing Location Aware Services over VANET using Geographical Secure Path Routing. ICVES, September 2008.
  3. Improving Email Trustworthiness through Social-Group Key Authentication. CEAS, August 2008.
  4. Secure Geographical Routing. Helsinki Rutgers Workshop, May 2007.
  5. Peer-to-peer Sender Authentication for Email. Helsinki Rutgers Workshop, May 2007.
  6. Authentication in Peer-to-peer Systems. Qualifying examination, October 2006.

Teaching - TA, PTL

  1. Computational Finance - C++ class. 642:612, Section 2, Spring 2007.
  2. Distributed Systems. 198:417, Sections 1,2, and 3, Spring 2003.
  3. Operating Systems Design. 198:416, Section 1, Fall 2002.
  4. Introduction to Computers. 198:110, Summer 2002.
  5. Formal Languages and Automata Theory. 198:452 Section 1, Spring 2002.

Theses and Research Reports

  1. Robust Decentralized Authentication for Public Keys and Geographic Locations. Ph.D. Thesis, December 2008.
  2. Securing Geographical Routing in Mobile Ad-hoc Networks. DCS Tech. Rep. 638, September 2008.
  3. Byzantine Fault Tolerant Authentication. DCS Tech. Rep. 492, June 2002.
  4. Encryption Servers: A Scalable Distributed Method for Internet Security. M.S. Thesis, April 2001.
  5. Sylvester's conjecture on L1 metric. Unpublished original proof with Vasek Chvatal, March 2001

I am interested in computer and internet security issues, both from the research and business angles. I also have a B.Tech. (Aerospace Engg.) from IIT Bombay, and an M.B.A. (Finance and Leadership) from the Stern School of Business at NYU. The best way to contact me is through my Linked-In profile. My email at Rutgers is vpathak[at]cs.rutgers.edu.